An analytical study on the commencement and the ending of Å ahryârnâmeh epic according to a storytellersâ narrative

• Main Author: عظیم جباره ناصرو
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: University of Isfahan 2016-09-01
• Series: Textual Criticism of Persian Literature
• Subjects: commencement; ending; oral narrative; versified narrative; poet; Šahryârnâmeh
• Online Access: http://rpll.ui.ac.ir/article_20591_148e3efb07004b9c2cd17975959e9ff7.pdf

&Scaronahryârnâmeh is one of comparatively voluminous epics composes after the &Scaronâhnâmeh, but its commencement and ending is lost. This is the only heroic epic that begins suddenly with no introduction and also ends abruptly without any conclusion. Amongst the verses composed after the &Scaronâhnâmehhas met little welcome in the public. It seems that the difficulty of verses, meaning detachment, between different segments of the story andnarrative lacuna, especially at the beginning and the end of the story could be one of effective factors of this workâs being abandoned among people. In Kohmarreh-Sorkhi Region there are four oral narratives of heroic verses composed laterthan the &Scaronâhnâmeh among which, BorzÅ«nâmeh and BânÅ«go&scaronasbnâmeh are rampant among some storytellersand narrators, but Farâmarznâmeh and &Scaronahryârnâmeh have been abandoned by the publicâs mentality. These recent two are narrated only by the oldest storyteller of the region, Alihossein Ãlinežâd. In his narration, the verses have meaningful and lucid beginning and ending and the composer of this work is known- although he is unknown according to all studies done. This essays tries to accomplish these three with an analytical approach: 1- to mention a summary of the commencement and the end of the story in the extant storytelling narrative and responding to the question of whether the narrators have had access to a complete version of the work or they have independently created a beginning and an end for it 2- to point out the differences and the resemblances between the storytellersâ narrative and the versified one 3- to mention the story of how the versified work was created and to answer the question of how much one can trust the integrity of this story.